National Urban League

The National Urban League is an American civil rights organization. Founded in New York City in 1910 as the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes, its original mission was to aid southern black migrants' resettlement in northern cities through social work. Under the exhuberant leadership of Whitney M. Young, the Urban League became one of the "big six" organizations of the 1960s civil rights movement. Today, the organization remains active in its research and advocacy on behalf of black socioeconomic empowerment.